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This is one fast car it will beat most cars upto 1.8 off the line. The front seats hug you, always good when indulging in some high speed cornering. Especially when this car handles like its on rails and gives brilliant driver feed back. It will do 125mph with ease and carry on to 135mph even though that's a little scary. I would suggest that if anyone sits in the back they wear a crash helmet as the ride is a bit hard.

8th Sep 2002, 18:54

I have had 2 1.4 SR's and both have managed 125mph with ease. If you find one that's been well looked after they are unbelievably quick. Both of mine have been proven to do 0-60 in between 7 and 8 seconds. Where Vauxhall get their figures from I have no idea.

15th Jun 2008, 08:32

XR2i's were OK, but how can you say a GTE/GSI is outclassed by the crappy 1.6 carb XR2, which had a 0-60 in 10.9 seconds. Even the Nova 1.4 SRI beat that. And an AX GTI? Rubbish compared to a Nova GTE.

And the others, the XR2i and the 205 1.6? Not really fast enough to say it out classed the Nova, only about 0.2 seconds quicker for the Fiesta. And the Nova had the most bullet proof engines out of the lot.

And as for the Red Top in a Nova, it'll beat anything you can throw at it; the Mi 16 205 conversion was crap in comparison.